'When we see Pope Leo XIV weep holy tears before the Eucharist — the Doctor of Grace calls such tears 'the heart’s blood' — we can see something of the way that the Pope is a genuine son of Augustine.

LITTLE ROCK — Restless Heart: The Confessions of St. Augustine is a condensed version of a 2010 Italian miniseries. It’s a curious project, a Catholic feature that’s not quite of a piece with most ...

In which, in the moment of confession, two figures emerge: the apologist and human self-portraiture. From the very beginning self-scrutiny is a danger zone. St Augustine by Sandro Botticelli In his ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his life, sometimes called the first autobiography, written around AD397 after he had been appointed as Bishop of Hippo. Show more Melvyn ...

Sixteen centuries after they were written, St Augustine’s Confessions might induce in the secular reader a bout of faith-envy. The poignancy in Emil Cioran’s observation hits home: “Obviously God was ...